YOUNGER GENERATION
WHAT ARE THEIR RIGHTS? RULINGS BY MAGISTRATES United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Australian Press Association) (Received 9th January, noon.) LONDON, Bth January. British Magistrates are being called on to determine the rights of the younger generation. In one case the Newport Bench decided that a grammar school headmaster was entitled to cane a schoolboy of sixteen for smoking after hours, though his father permitted it. When flogged before the school as an example, the boy showed fight until he was caught by two assistant masters, put across a desk and caned, kicking and bellowing wildly. The Magistrate awarded the headmaster damages, considering he was improperly summoned. In tiie second case a London Magistrate decided that it was reasonable that a father should deprive his daughter of 20 of a latch key because she .was not at home by 10 o’clock, and wanted to go to dances. The Association of Women’s Clerks officially expresses the opinion that the father’s viewpoint was preposterous, a girl of twenty big enough to look after herself.
Other critics point out that within .a year the girl will have a vote as good as her father’s. . .
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 9 January 1929, Page 5
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